According to the official show website, Mad Dogs essentially sounds like a British Men of a Certain Age remade as a jaunty, darkly comedic action drama: four lifelong friends meet up at another buddy’s (Ben Chaplin) Majorcan villa but soon “find themselves entangled in a web of deception and murder involving beautiful police women, large yachts, Speedos and a rather short assassin in a Tony Blair mask…”

Sky has released a couple of trailers that make no apologies about serving up the four leads up as taut, tanned sex objects in Speedos. You have famed photographer/video director David LaChapelle (who else?) to thank for this highly stylized first teaser. Simm in particular has never looked better, frankly: